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Rash Decisions

Posted on June 9, 2026 by Nathan

The Hungry Tiger of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – I reread this book for its centennial, and as usual, it was a fun experience. The adventure of the famous feline starts out quite similarly to Cowardly Lion, not only … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Characters, Economics, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television | Tagged atmos fere, betsy bobbin, big wigs, carter green, cowardly lion, deadly desert, down town, emerald city, ev, giants, guph, hungry tiger, hurry-canes, immense city, indus tree, ippty, kaliko, klik, loonville, nome kingdom, nomes, ottoman empire, ozma, patrick maund, princess elma, queen fi nance, quick sandals, rash, rash rubies, rinkitink in oz, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, tik-tok of oz, tiny toon adventures | Leave a comment

Beam Me Up, Ozma

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Nathan

Thinking about how the Zoom spell works in the Dragon Quest III remake has reignited my interest in magical transportation in general. There’s a lot of it in the Oz books, but it doesn’t all work the same way. Some of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged balloon bird, baron mogodore, cowardly lion, deadly desert, dinner bell, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, ev, forbidden flagon, forbidden tube, ginger, glinda, good witch of the north, jack pumpkinhead, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kabumpo, king randywell, magic belt, magic carpet, magic dishpan, mudge, nonestic ocean, notta bit more, ojo in oz, oogaboo, ozma, ozma of oz, patchwork girl, paul dana, peter brown, queen ann soforth, quox, red jinn, rinkitink in oz, seven-league boots, shaggy man, silver shoes, sir hokus of pokes, speedy, speedy in oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the law of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the silver princess in oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, ugu the shoemaker, umbrella island, wicked witch of the west, wishing pills, wizard of oz | 2 Comments

Getting to Nome You

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Nathan

The physical appearance of the Nome King was something that came up recently in an online chat, and we have a pretty good description when he first appears in Ozma of Oz: “This important monarch of the Underground World was … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Gender, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged angelica shirley carpenter, dorothy gale, eggs, imps, kabumpo in oz, kaliko, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, magic belt, mardi gras, mary lenard, matriarchy, nome king, nome kingdom, nomes, ozma, ozma of oz, ozma sorceresses and suffrage, patriarchy, pirates in oz, polychrome, rinkitink in oz, santa claus, sexism, sherwood smith, the baum bugle, the characters of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the magic of oz, the nome king, the tik-tok man of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tik-tok and the nome king, tik-tok of oz | Leave a comment

The Ozual Suspects

Posted on August 31, 2023 by Nathan

The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation, edited by Dina Schiff Massachi – This collection of essays by different authors, some of whom I know personally, discusses various Oz characters and how they’ve been used over time, … Continue reading →

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Been a Long Time Since I Rinkitinked

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Nathan

I’ve previously reviewed the 2016 Oziana, which consists of fifteen different alternate endings for Rinktink in Oz. I thought I should say a little more about each one, however, so here we go. Susan Johnson starts out by going in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Eric Shanower, Food, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a child's garden, aaron solomon adelman, andrew heller, baruch adelman, bilbil, christopher m. diket, dorothy gale, eggs, eleanor kennedy, ev, fix city, flattown, george van buren, gilgad, goats, high faluting city, how to be good, invisible inzi of oz, jackdaws, james bond, john w. kennedy, karen diket, king anko, king gos of regos, king rinkitink, kuik blackbab, maggie lockett, magic belt, mariah b'forre, mermaids, musicton, nikobob, nome king, nome kingdom, ouija board, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, ozmapolitan, patchwork girl, pearls of pingaree, prince bobo of boboland, prince inga of pingaree, puns, queen aquareine, queen cor of coregos, rinkitink in oz, robin hess, roodnite, sarah hadley, scarecrow, susan johnson, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway of oz, three trick caverns, toto and the cats of oz, tune town, virginia and robert wauchope, walkingbury, water of oblivion, wizard of oz, wizards, zog | 4 Comments

The Call of Cthjello

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Nathan

It’s Oziana time! Let’s delve into the 1981 issue, which has a drawing of Glinda by Denise Brunkus on the cover. Maybe this is just me, but it seems like her dress is made to look lumpy, and it puts … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, Jack Snow, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adventure on monday mountain, as the rainbow follows the rain, billina, cthjello, cthulhu, dana linker, daniel k. cox, deadly desert, death, denise brunkus, dorothy gale, emeralda ozgood, ernest johnson, glinda, grampa in oz, great book of records, h.p. lovecraft, immortality, kaliko, lurline, mermaids, monday mountain, mount munch, nome king, nome kingdom, old ones, oziana, ozma, paula cooper, polychrome, professor wogglebug, rinkitink in oz, the eldritch horror of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the rainbow's daughter of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the woggle-bug book, tik-tok of oz, trot griffiths, yog-sothoth, yug-succotash | 1 Comment

Jinnicky’s Body

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Nathan

We’re now up to the Oziana from the year I was born, 1977. The front cover shows the royal palace of Oogaboo, as drawn by Albert Chronic. The introductory page has a political cartoon by Bill Eubank that isn’t really that … Continue reading →

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Dreaming of Seuss Juice

Posted on March 13, 2021 by Nathan

I wanted to say a bit about the manufactured controversy over Dr. Seuss, which is obviously being totally misrepresented by conservatives. It’s the Seuss estate that decided to stop publishing six particular books, so it isn’t some kind of government … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Current Events, Dr. Seuss, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Prejudice | Tagged and to think that i saw it on mulberry street, birds, censorship, dungeons and dragons, fantanimals, fish, if i ran the zoo, jorge luis borges, keith havens, long-legger kwong, mcelligot's pool, monster manual, nerds, on beyond zebra, one fish two fish red fish blue fish, racism, rinkitink in oz, scrambled eggs super, the book of imaginary beings, the cat in the hat, the patchwork girl of oz | 6 Comments

Hiding in Plane Sight

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Nathan

While Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz sets the stage for a sequel with the Wizard and Tin Woodman trying to retrieve the lost Ozpril, such a book was never published. As indicated in Michael Patrick Hearn’s afterword, Ruth Plumly … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Chris Dulabone, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged breakfast the bananny goat, giraffes, goats, j. l. bell, michael patrick hearn, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, ozpril, pirates in oz, rinkitink in oz, snowmen, stratovania, the lost king of oz, the wonder city of oz, tin woodman, wizard of oz, yankee in oz | Leave a comment

The Offbeat Officials of Oz

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Nathan

The Oz books have a lot of small royal courts with unusually-titled officials. This is something we see much more often in Ruth Plumly Thompson, but L. Frank Baum did have a few examples. In John Dough and the Cherub, … Continue reading →

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Rash Decisions

Beam Me Up, Ozma

Getting to Nome You

The Ozual Suspects

Been a Long Time Since I Rinkitinked

The Call of Cthjello

Jinnicky’s Body

Dreaming of Seuss Juice

Hiding in Plane Sight

The Offbeat Officials of Oz

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